The more and more that I read and learn about God through the bible I feel like we are getting it very wrong. It seems like everyone has different opinions of what the bible is saying. The thing is most of these thoughts are being sent down from teacher to student for many years. Every book that comes out has an authors opionion of what they think scripture means. But if you are to find the person who taught them they agree with everything they have said in there book. No one has any of there own views of scripture they just have what they are told to believe.
It is like the people who are Calvinist are taught a Calvin doctrine from who they consider to be there teacher or pastor. The same goes for those who have Arminist beliefs. But how many of us have sat down with our bible's and looked at it with an open mind, forgetting all that has been told to us. And we searched it out for answers and its true meaning for ourselves. Some of you may be reading this saying well i have a quiet time so i do this but most of us sit down with a devotional or something that someone has told us to read so we can talk about it later.
I really just wonder what will happen if we sit down and study the bible without anything else to help us. What if we found the answers for ourself instead of just realying on what someone else says or one verse of scripture that agrees with there point.
I think we should try it, and I wonder what will happen. I think for one a deeper love for God will come and a true honest understanding of scripture. And who knows what you believe after looking it up may be completely wrong and you have to make sure your following what God says and not what someone else says.
I do not know if this is making much since at all and I may get in trouble for this but I am wondering what will happen. Who knows maybe someone who follows a very Arminist doctrine will follow more of a Calvinist one. Who knows just try it......
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